Special Lectures and Programs

Dr. Rebecca T. Alpert

Image: Dr. Rebecca T. Alpert"Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball"
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Associate Professor of Religion and Women's Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia
Dolan School of Business Dining Room, 7:30 p.m.
Complimentary admission. Limited seating. For reservations call the Bennett Center at (203) 254-4000, ext. 2066.
Co-Sponsored by Black Studies.
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Audrey Flack

Image: Audrey FlackThe Samuel and Bettie Roberts Memorial Lecture in Jewish Art
"Facing Jewish Identity Through Images, Style, Color and Content"
Monday, March 4, 2013
Photorealist painter, and sculptor
Regina A. Quick Center Kelley Theater, 7:30 p.m.
Complimentary admission. Limited seating. For reservations call the Bennett Center at (203) 254-4000, ext. 2066.
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Carol Mack

Image: Carol MackTheater Performance: The Visitor
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Based on an 1895 incident in NYC involving a German anti-Semite and the Jewish police officers who protected his right to free speech. Directed by Dr. Marti LoMonaco.
Regina A. Quick Center Wien Experimental Theater, 8 p.m.
Complimentary admission. Limited seating to 120. For reservations call the Bennett Center at (203) 254-4000, ext. 2066.
Co-Sponsored with the American Studies Program.

Bob Simon

Image: Bob SimonCarl and Dorothy Bennett Lecture in Judaic Studies
Thursday, April 4, 2013
"Understanding Israel and the Middle East"
Bob Simon, award winning international journalist, veteran foreign correspondent, and featured contributor to 60 Minutes since 1996.
Regina A. Quick Center, 7 p.m.
Tickets: $20. For reservations call the Quick Center Box Office at (203) 254-4010
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Image: Film cover of Defiance Annual Holocaust Remembrance Service
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Speaker: Alan Bell, son of Aron (Bielski) Bell, the last surviving member of the Jewish partisan brothers whose resistance to the Nazis was the subject of the film Defiance.
Egan Chapel of St. Ignatius Loyola, 4:30 p.m.
Complimentary admission. For reservations call the Bennett Center at (203) 254-4000, ext. 2066.
Co-Sponsored with Campus Ministry and KADIMA<
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